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An estimated 5,000 refugees live within 3 miles of San Antonio's medical center.
CMS is also testing new Person Centered Community Care, or P3C, model for dually-eligible individuals who are at least 21 and have disabilities that impair their mobility, requiring nursing home care.
Yates is taking a stab at predicting how certain trends and events will play out over the coming year.
Top stories include Houston Methodist lifting margins, and outsourcing revenue cycle operations.
Some physicians are concerned moving the surgeries out of hospitals will land vulnerable patients in the emergency room with pain, complications.
In the past 20 years, the rate of hospitalization among seniors that is related to opioid overuse has quintupled.
Overdoses kill 90 people in the United States each day; opioid poisonings cost more than $20 billion in emergency departments, hospital care.
Hospitals say they fear violating government decree that hospitals can't "specify or otherwise limit" patient's choice, but are not prohibited from advising on quality of facilities.
People who want to sign up for a policy on healthcare.gov after open enrollment ends may have to prove they qualify for special enrollment.
From sample of 1,202 adults, eight percent of respondents said they or someone in their household had imported a drug at some point.